The Indian guides are fine hunters--it's their ancestors who killed General Custer and his men.
Headstones etched with names like Custer and Westmoreland stand near plots with freshly turned earth.
Then he saw the reports this week about Wild Blue and Crazy Horse and Custer.
George Armstrong Custer came out in 1984 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize.
Indian war buffs will be absorbed by Mr Philbrick's intelligent, yet necessarily speculative, reconstruction of Custer's reckless encounter.
His military biography of Custer brings balance to a life that is often distorted by the preconceptions of the historian.
Flowers are also popular these days with innovative and romantic young chefs like Danielle Custer, the executive chef of Laurels Restaurant in Dallas.
The Jan. 9 edition of the Times-Picayune of New Orleans quoted Ambrose regarding the earlier Forbes.com report on similarities in the two Custer books.
They are happy to be thought of as gypsies, just as American Indians who become industrialists like to tell of ancestors who fought against Custer.
Custer also overestimated the stamina and hardiness of his troops.
Tragically for his men, his military successes there, and in later wars against the Indians, induced a hubris that led Custer to make some catastrophic decisions at Little Bighorn.
In American military mythology Custer's last stand ranks alongside the Battle of the Alamo, an attack by Mexican forces on a compound in Texas, which left all the defenders dead.
The U.S. media is very similar to Blackwater, Dyncorp, Custer Battles and Triple Canopy, etc. the armed military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, except that the media has always been privatized.
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Ambrose told the newspaper that his footnotes and acknowledgment section in Crazy Horse and Custer had made his debt clear to the late Jay Monaghan , author of the earlier work.
The gelding gained legendary status as the sole survivor on the U.S. Cavalry side of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn -- fought between General Custer's troops and native American Indians.
Best known for helping defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, Crazy Horse was by all accounts a courageous warrior who inspired his people and others alike.
"The uniforms we have today are not so different from the ones we had in Vietnam, which are not so different from the ones in Custer's day, " says Ned Thomas , MIT materials science professor and director of the ISN.
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